Migration in and through sports is a multi-layered global issue. Worldwide, athletes aspire to follow in the footsteps of compatriots who have built careers in professional sports abroad. Beyond this, popular sport serves as a political instrument to facilitate migrants' social participation in destination countries. In any case, the interlinkages between sport and migration are complex and call for academic inquiry. Approaches to grasp these interlinkages are twofold: while scholars study how migrant athletes transform the face of global sport, sport is also used as a valuable lens to understand broader social, economic and political issues in migration.